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Privacy experts: Focus on controlling damage caused by data collection
A group of privacy experts from organizations including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union is advocating for better laws and technologies that keep data collection from hurting you. One of these tools could be regulation that gives consumers more rights over their data, like the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation.
Why Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is calling for more government regulation (C|Net)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 04/01/2019 - 20:25
USTelecom: Reinventing broadband mapping is needed to close the digital divide
USTelecom is leading the charge on a new, more precise, approach to broadband reporting and mapping. We have proposed to Congress and regulatory agencies a method to create a public-private partnership to map America's broadband infrastructure so policymakers and providers can better target scarce funding to communities with limited or no service options. Currently, the Federal Communications Commission collects some deployment data from broadband providers by census block.
Millions of Americans still can't get broadband. Here’s a potential fix
USTelecom, an industry group representing carriers like AT&T, CenturyLink, and others serving rural America, says it may have the fix for broadband mapping that will provide far more granularity in the data than ever before. The lobbying group will work with other telecom industry groups, including WISPA, which represents fixed wireless providers, and ITTA, which represents smaller rural carriers, to pilot a new mapping program in two states: Virginia and Missouri. They say the program will lead to the creation of a better, more accurate nationwide broadband deployment map.
Republicans say they want net neutrality rules, too
A Q&A with Rep Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA).
Democrats leading the Save the Internet Act are pushing for a vote in April, with or without Republicans
A Q&A with House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA).
Apple dealt legal blow as jury awards Qualcomm $31 million (C|Net)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 03/15/2019 - 15:35Apple joins list of Elizabeth Warren's tech breakup targets (C|Net)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 03/12/2019 - 10:43Tim Berners-Lee still believes the web can be fixed, even today
30 years on, the web has been "hijacked by crooks" who could destroy it, world wide web creator Tim Berners-Lee said. It's morphed into a platform where disinformation spreads like a contagion, hate foments and personal privacy has been relinquished to the highest bidder looking to make a quick buck. Now, the 63-year-old said, he's working to fix the online world he helped create, and launched two major efforts in Nov to turn the web around. The first is the Contract for the Web, which he says will make the web more trustworthy and less susceptible to some of today's problems.